An Increasing Demand for Disability Services All Over Australia

According to a recent report, all over Australia, there has been noticed a 45% increase in the demand and use of disability services in last five years. It simply indicates that the pressure on health system is growing with a fast pace which makes it crucial for them to find out a solution as soon as possible.

Aiming to introduce a new system, the Federal Government has already started working with the states and territories to check out test sites for a national disability insurance scheme.

On Friday, a report was released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare which clearly showed that under the ongoing National Disability Agreement (NDA) in 2010/11, an amount of $6.2 billion is being spent by the governments on overall services.

However, the total amount that will be required for performing this new scheme is unknown and in what ways the government will collect it, has not been decided yet. But just for the trials, an amount of $1 billion has been set aside.

As compared to the ratio of people using these services in 2005-06, presently more than 314,000 people are in the queue. With an increase of 45% since then, the rate of service use has reached one in 71 from one in 94 Australians.